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ATHEIST ALAIN de BOTTON; Brief Bio;

World's Leading ATHEIST ALAIN de BOTTON; Brief Bio;

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[SOURCE: Atheist Alain de Botton, Leading Authority on Atheist "Love", "Philosophy" and Ethics for Atheists" and " HOW ATHEISTS DON'T NEED GOD TO LOVE and FORGIVE!" in response to a negative book review by a fellow atheist at the NY Times!

CHRISTIPEDIA: World's Leading ATHEIST ALAIN de BOTTON; Brief Bio;

"...it is a review driven by an almost manic desire to bad-mouth and perversely depreciate anything of value! The accusations you level at me are simply extraordinary."

He went on: "I genuinely hope that you will find yourself on the receiving end of such a daft review some time very soon – so that you can grow up and start to take some responsibility for your work as a reviewer.

You have now killed my book in the United States, nothing short of that. So that's two years of work down the drain in one miserable 900 word review."

"I will hate you till the day I die and wish you nothing but ill will in every career move you make. I will be watching with interest and schadenfreude.

[SOURCE: Atheist Alain de Botton, Leading Authority on Atheist "Love", "Philosophy" and Ethics for Atheists" and " HOW ATHEISTS DON'T NEED GOD TO LOVE and FORGIVE!"

Alain de Botton, FRSL (born Zurich, 20 December 1969) is a Swiss writer, philosopher, television presenter and entrepreneur, resident in the United Kingdom.[1] His books and television programs discuss various contemporary subjects and themes, emphasizing philosophy's relevance to everyday life.

At 23, he published Essays In Love (1993), which went on to sell two million copies. Other bestsellers include How Proust Can Change Your Life (1997), Status Anxiety (2004) and The Architecture Of Happiness (2006). In August 2008, he was a founding member of a new educational establishment in central London called The School of Life.

In May 2009, he was a founding member of a new architectural organization called "Living Architecture".[2][3] In October that year, de Botton was appointed an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, in recognition of his services to architecture.[4]

In 2011, de Botton was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL).[5]

Early life and familyBorn in Zurich, de Botton comes from a Sephardic Jewish family, originating from a small Castilian town of Boton (now vanished) on the Iberian peninsula. His ancestors include Abraham de Boton.[6] His paternal grandmother was Yolande Harmer.[7] His father, Gilbert de Botton, was the co-founder of Global Asset Management. His wealth was estimated by one source to be £234 million in 1999.[8]

He has one sister Miel and they received a secular upbringing.[9] De Botton spent the first eight years of his life in Switzerland where he was brought up to speak French and German.

Education

He was sent to the Dragon School, a boarding school in Oxford, where English became his first language. Describing himself as a shy child, he boarded at Harrow School, before going up to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he read History (1988–1991), graduating with a double starred first (MA), and subsequently completed a Master's degree (MPhil) in Philosophy at King's College, University of London (1991–1992).[10]

He began studying for a PhD in French philosophy at Harvard University,[11] but gave up this research to write books for the general public.[10]

Writing

De Botton has written in a variety of formats to mixed response. Positive reviews of de Botton's books claim that he has made literature, philosophy and art more accessible to a wider audience.[12][13][14][15][16]

Ambivalence is apparent in the following example,de Botton's idea of bringing philosophy to the masses and presenting it in an nonthreatening manner (and showing how it might be useful in anyone's life), is admirable; the way he has gone about it is less so. —The Independent[12]

Negative reviews allege that de Botton tends to state the obvious from a position of privilege[17][18] and have characterized some of his books as pompous and lacking focus.[19][20][21][22]

EssaysDe Botton has written books of essays in which his own experiences and ideas are interwoven with those of artists, philosophers and thinkers. These have been called a "philosophy of everyday life."[23][24]

Fiction

In his first novel, Essays In Love (titled On Love in the U.S.), published in 1993, de Botton deals with the process of falling in and out of love. The style of the book is unusual because it mixes elements of a novel with reflections and analyses normally found in non-fiction. In 2010, Essays in Love was adapted to film by director Julian Kemp for the romantic comedy My Last Five Girlfriends.

Non-fiction

In 1997 he published his first non-fiction book, How Proust Can Change Your Life, based on the life and works of Marcel Proust.[25] It is a mixture of a "self-help" envelope and analysis of one of the most revered books in the Western canon, In Search of Lost Time.

It was a bestseller in the US and UK.[26]

This was followed by The Consolations of Philosophy in 2000. The title of the book is a reference to Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, in which philosophy appears as an allegorical figure to Boethius to console him in the period leading up to his impending execution.

Though sometimes described as works of popularization,[10] Proust and Consolations were attempts to develop original ideas about friendship, art, envy, desire, and inadequacy, among other things, with the help of thoughts of other thinkers.[3]

In The Consolations of Philosophy, de Botton attempts to demonstrate how the teachings of philosophers such as Epicurus, Montaigne, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Seneca, and Socrates can be applied to modern everyday woes such as unpopularity, feelings of inadequacy, financial worries, broken hearts, and the general problem of suffering.

The book has been both praised and criticized for its therapeutic approach to philosophy.

De Botton then returned to a more lyrical, personal style of writing. In The Art of Travel, he looked at themes in the psychology of travel: how we imagine places before we see them, how we remember beautiful things, what happens to us when we look at deserts, stay in hotels, and go to the countryside.

In Status Anxiety (2004), de Botton examines an almost universal anxiety that is rarely mentioned directly: what others think of us; about whether we're judged a success or a failure, a winner or a loser.

In The Architecture of Happiness[27] (2006), he discusses the nature of beauty in architecture and how it is related to the well-being and general contentment of the individual and society.

He describes how architecture affects people every day, though people rarely pay particular attention to it. A good portion of the book discusses how human personality traits are reflected in architecture.

He ends up defending Modernist architecture, and chastising the pseudo-vernacular architecture of housing, especially in the UK. "The best modern architecture," he argues, "doesn't hold a mirror up to nature, though it may borrow a pleasing shape or expressive line from nature's copybook.

It gives voice to aspirations and suggests possibilities. The question isn't whether you'd actually like to live in a Le Corbusier home, but whether you'd like to be the kind of person who'd like to live in one."

In The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work (2009),[3] a survey of ten different jobs, including accountancy, rocket science and biscuit manufacture, which includes two hundred original images and aims to unlock the beauty, interest and occasional horror of the modern world of work.

In response to a question about whether he felt "pulled" to be a writer, de Botton responded:

So I think where people tend to end up results from a combination of encouragement, accident, and lucky break, etc., etc.

Like many others, my career happened like it did because certain doors opened and certain doors closed. You know, at a certain point I thought it would be great to make film documentaries.

Well, in fact, I found that to be incredibly hard and very expensive to do and I didn’t really have the courage to keep battling away at that.

In another age, I might have been an academic in a university, if the university system had been different.

So it’s all about trying to find the best fit between your talents and what the world can offer at that point in time.[28]

In a word: ZEITGEIST!

In August 2009, de Botton replied to a competition advertised among British literary agents by BAA, the airport management company, for the post of "writer-in-residence" at Heathrow Airport. The post involved being seated at a desk in Terminal 5, and writing about the comings and goings of passengers over a week. De Botton was duly appointed to the position. The result was the book, A Week at the Airport, published by Profile Books in September 2009. The book features photographs by the documentary photographer Richard Baker, with whom de Botton also worked on The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work.In January 2012, de Botton published Religion for Atheists, a look at some of the more interesting and consoling benefits of religions for those who happen not to believe in them. As de Botton put it: 'Religions are in the end too complex, wise and fascinating to be abandoned simply to those who happen actually to believe in them'.[edit] Newspapers, lecturing and televisionDe Botton writes regular articles for several English newspapers, and from 1998 to 2000, wrote a regular column for The Independent on Sunday. He also travels extensively to lecture on his works. He owns and helps run his own production company, Seneca Productions, making television documentaries based on his works.[29] De Botton has given lectures at TED conferences. In July 2011, he spoke in Edinburgh about "Atheism 2.0", an idea of atheism that also incorporates our human need for connection, ritual and transcendence.[30] In July 2009, he also spoke in Oxford about the philosophy of failure and success, and questions the assumptions underlying these two judgments.[31] In 2012, de Botton appeared on the BBC's Daily Politics Show.[edit] Other projects[edit] The School of LifeDe Botton's project from 2008 is The School of Life – a new cultural enterprise based in central London aiming to offer instruction on how to lead a fulfilled life. In an interview with metkere.com[32] de Botton said:The idea is to challenge traditional universities and reorganize knowledge, directing it towards life, and away from knowledge for its own sake. In a modest way, it’s an institution that is trying to give people what universities should I think always give them: a sense of direction and wisdom for their lives with the help of culture.[33][edit] Living ArchitectureIn May 2009, de Botton was named as the chief inspiration for a new architecture project called "Living Architecture"[34] – which proposes to build a series of innovative houses in the UK using leading contemporary architects. These include Peter Zumthor, MVRDV, JVA, NORD and Michael and Patti Hopkins. The houses will be rented out to the general public. De Botton's aim is to improve the appreciation of good contemporary architecture – and seems a practical continuation of his theoretical work on architecture in his book The Architecture of Happiness. In October 2009, de Botton was appointed an honorary fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, in recognition of his services to architecture.[4]

lain de Botton’s ‘Religion for Atheists’

Post American Civil War, religion lost influence, but impulse lingered. Some sought salvation in the secular means of politics — as in Naziism, Communism, Fascism and mostly Socialism - as they still do today - a la the Great Socialist, Obama, better known as the great Community Organizer.

Others saw artists, musicians, entertainers, philosophers and even comedians . . . as Holy ones - gurus if you will - from Shirley McClaine to Deepak Chopara, who could provide transcendence and meaning, revealing timeless truths on how to live.

All failed . . . miserably.

Then the emerging Church "emergeed" - which is also failing: Miserably!

Now we have a first! An Atheist writes a Religion for Atheists!

Used to be they'd call that a . . . a . . . a "Whatcha-majigger" says Larry the Cable Clown! (make that "mutually exclusive" or "oxy-moronic - you know . . .

Alain de Botton - the Man who would be Chris Hitchens now that "The Hitch is all done "bit_hin'" and "Hitchin!" - de Botton who can't control "de Button" (on his lips - See top quote above!) . . .

. . . is telling other atheists how how to live, love, be kind and caring/b> - you know - like Christ tried to tell Christians?

Sounds familiar!

Unless de Botton is willing to go to de Cross at de Calvary . . . we de -clare that he like Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Castrom Kim Yong Il and Mao will (and McCaline and Deepak) will also . . . fail miserably!

D. Brooks - the former conservative, now RINO KING says:

A "Temple to Perspective," showing the age of the earth, would inspire feelings of awe, Alain de Botton writes.

In 1913, the innovations of the Armory Show in New York and Diaghilev’s production of “The Rite of Spring” had a seismic impact because audiences believed the shape of the culture determined the shape of their souls.

In 1922, George Gordon, the Merton professor of literature at Oxford University, could write, “England is sick, and . . . English literature must save it.”

These days politics and culture have more modest aims, says Brooksey.

As the writer and freelance philosopher Alain de Botton argues in “Religion for Atheists,” cultural and intellectual institutions are no longer about the salvation of souls:

“The methodologies which universities today employ in disseminating culture are fundamentally at odds with the intense, neo-religious ambitions once harbored by lapsed or skeptical Christians. . . .

. . . While universities have achieved unparalleled expertise in imparting factual information about culture, they remain wholly uninterested in training students to use it as a repertoire of wisdom.”

De Botton looks around and sees a secular society denuded, emasculated, spaded, of high spiritual aspiration and practical moral guidance.

Centuries ago, religions gave people advice on how to live with others, how to tolerate other people’s faults, how to assuage anger, you know . . . so you don't say things like

"I will hate you till the day I die and wish you nothing but ill will in every career move you make. I will be watching with interest and schadenfreude.

. . . how to endure pain and deal with the petty corruptions of a commercial world. These days, he argues, teachers, artists and philosophers no longer even try to offer such practical wisdom.

“We are fatefully in love with ambiguity, uncritical of the Modernist Atheist Doctrine that great art should have no moral content or desire to change its audience,” he writes.

Museums were once temples for the contemplation of the profound. Today, he says, they offer pallid cultural smorgasbords: “While exposing us to objects of genuine importance, they nevertheless seem incapable of adequately linking these to the needs of our souls.”

Visitors “appear to want to be transformed by art,” de Botton observes, “but the lightning bolts they are waiting for seem never to strike. They resemble the disappointed participants in a failed séance.”

It wasn’t a loss of faith that brought us to this sorry pass, de Botton argues; it was a loss in understanding about how to transmit wisdom. The religious authorities had a low but realistic view of human nature. We are fragile, sinful and vulnerable — unable to create moral universes on our own. We therefore need self-confident institutions that will unabashedly transmit God’s guidance and love.

Today’s secular institutions, by contrast, have an absurdly high and unrealistic view of human nature. We are each charged with the task of coming up with our own philosophy and moral laws. We are supposed to have the ability, on our own, to remember the key things we learn and to put these ideas into practice. The key thing is that we are given enough freedom and autonomy to complete the task.

De Botton is not calling for a religious revival. He finds it impossible to take faith in God seriously. He assumes that none of his educated readers could possibly believe in spooky ghosts in the sky.

Instead, he is calling on secular institutions to adopt religion’s pedagogy, to mimic the rituals, habits and teaching techniques that churches, mosques and synagogues perfected over centuries.

For example, religious people were smart enough to combine spirituality and eating, aware that while dining in a group, people tend to be in a convivial, welcoming mood. De Botton believes that secular people should create communal restaurants that mimic the Passover Seder. Atheists would sit at big, communal tables.

They would find guidebooks in front of them, reminiscent of the Jewish Haggadah or the Catholic missal. The rituals of the meal would direct diners to speak with one another, asking questions of their neighbors like “Whom can you not forgive?” or “What do you fear?”

Among de Botton’s proposals, I particularly like the idea of a museum organized by theme instead of by historical epoch. He suggests there could be a Gallery of Compassion, a Gallery of Fear and so on. And colleges should definitely teach courses on such practical issues as how to pick a marriage partner, bringing together the resources of literature, psychology and neuroscience on such questions.

However, many of his ideas seem silly. I’m a little skeptical that college lectures should be like Southern Baptist church services, with students shouting out responses after each sentence of a philosophy lecture. It seems highly unlikely that people will behave much better if there are “Forgiveness” billboards plastered all over town. I’m not sure an atheist society could really pull off a quarterly “Day of Atonement” when everybody pauses to confess sins to no one in particular.

De Botton’s book is provocative when it comes to diagnosing the current cultural ills. But it makes atheism seem kind of boring, a spiritual handicap, the opiate of the shallow masses.

Let’s say you were a young person looking to have a rich inner life. You could pull off the shelves the story of a believer’s spiritual education, like C. S. Lewis’s “Surprised by Joy” or Augustine’s “Confessions.” In these books you’d find complex adventure stories, describing people whose early lives were riven by turmoil, pride and self-love.

These writers don’t coolly shop for personal growth experiences like someone at the spiritual mall. They find themselves enmeshed in paradoxes of a richness unimaginable before they became entangled in them — that understanding comes after love, that one achieves fullness by surrendering self, that as you approach wisdom you are swept by a sensation that you have been suppressing all along, and all you need do is release.

Augustine’s great biographer Peter Brown writes, “The healing process by which love and knowledge are reintegrated is made possible by an inseparable connection between growing self-determination and dependence on a source of life that always escapes ­self-determination.”

Lewis describes the joy of religious contact, but discovers he can’t achieve joy by seeking it: “I smuggled in the assumption that what I wanted was a ‘thrill,’ a state of my own mind. And there lies the deadly error. Only when your whole attention and desire are fixed on something else — whether a distant mountain, or the past, or the gods of Asgard — does the ‘thrill’ arise. It is a byproduct. Its very existence presupposes that you desire not it but something other and outer.”

There’s something at stake in these accounts, a person’s whole destiny and soul. The process de Botton is recommending is more like going on one of those self-improving vacations. If all his advice were faithfully followed, we’d be a collection of autonomous individuals seeking a string of vaguely uplifting experiences that might perhaps leave a sediment of some sort of spiritual improvement.

Many of us would rather live frustrated in the company of the believers than fulfilled in this flatland of the atheists. The atheists know what they don’t believe in, but they don’t seem to know what they don’t feel. This is a gap that has existed for centuries, and de Botton doesn’t fill it.

Personal life

De Botton has described his relationship with his father as difficult, stating: "When I sold my first bestseller (and a million dollars was peanuts for my father) he was not impressed and rather wondered what I was going to do with myself."[35]

When his father died, his family was left a large trust fund,[36] although de Botton says his income is derived solely from the proceeds of his book sales.[37][38][39]

His stepmother Janet de Botton is a prominent patron of the arts and competition bridge player.[40] De Botton lives in London.[41]

Publications

• Essays In Love (1993), also published as On Love: A Novel (2006)

• The Romantic Movement (1994)

• Kiss and Tell (1995)

• How Proust Can Change Your Life (1997)

• The Consolations of Philosophy (2000)

• The Art of Travel (2002)

• Status Anxiety (2004)

• The Architecture of Happiness (2006)

• The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work (2009)

• A Week at the Airport (2009)

• Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion (2012)

Filmography

• My Last Five Girlfriends (based on Essays in Love)

TV series

• Philosophy: A Guide To Happiness (from The Consolations of Philosophy)

1. Socrates on Self-Confidence2. Epicurus on Happiness3. Seneca on Anger4. Montaigne on Self-Esteem5. Schopenhauer on Love6. Nietzsche on Hardship (featuring Cathal Grealish)• Status Anxiety (film)• The Art Of Travel Prix européen de l'essai Charles Veillon• The Perfect Home (from The Architecture of Happiness)

RadioIn 2011 he presented a series of talks for the BBC Radio 4 series A Point of View.

• What Humanities Should Teach: Arguing teachers of humanities in universities have only themselves to blame for cuts in funding.

• News and Concentration: Examining our inability to concentrate.

• The Ecological Sublime: A philosopher's take on ecological dilemmas.

• Are Museums Our New Churches?: Argues that museums could learn from churches with regard to getting their message across.

• In Praise of the Nanny State: Asks why the idea of a Nanny State is so unappealing.

• On Marriage: Muses on why a bookish life is a poor preparation for marriage.

• In Praise of the Zoo: Muses on the value of exotic animals in giving perspective on our own lives.

• The Art of Conversation: Questions why we put so much effort into social encounters but leave conversation to chance.

• What's in a Marriage?: Argues that expecting one person

to be a good partner, lover and parent is, almost, asking the impossible.

• On Social Climbing: Argues that social climbing should be seen as evidence of a natural curiosity about the modern

3. ^ a b c "Alain de Botton, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, Alain de Botton, the architecture of happiness, the consolations of philosophy, how Proust can change your life, essays in love, philosophy a guide to happiness, The School of Life". www.alaindebotton.com.

12. ^ a b "The Consolations of Philosophy – Alain de Botton". www.complete-review.com. Retrieved 2010-03-23. "De Botton's idea of bringing philosophy to the masses and presenting it in an unthreatening manner (and showing how it might be useful in anyone's life), is admirable; the way he has gone about it is less so."

13. ^ "Philosophy for a night out at the Dog and Duck". London: The Independent. 2000-04-03. Retrieved 2009-07-11.

17. ^ Charlie Brooker (January 2005). "The art of drivel". London: The Guardian. Retrieved 2009-07-11. "...a pop philosopher who's forged a lucrative career stating the bleeding obvious in a series of poncey, lighter-than-air books aimed at smug Sunday supplement pseuds looking for something clever-looking to read on the plane"

18. ^ "Flaccid fallacies". London: guardian.co.uk. 2000-03-25. Retrieved 2009-03-20. "De Botton's new book consists of obvious, hopeless or contradictory advice culled from great thinkers on how to overcome certain problems of existence."

19. ^ Jim Holt (2006-12-10). "Dream Houses". New York Times. Retrieved 2008-04-06. "Like de Botton’s previous books, this one contains its quota of piffle dressed up in pompous language."

20. ^ Mark Lamster. "I.D. – Bring Back the Bluebird". www.id-mag.com. Retrieved 2009-04-17. "...little of the original thinking that might be expected from an outsider... The Architecture of Happiness would be an innocuous castoff if not for its proselytizing ambitions"

21. ^ Naomi Wolf (March 2009). "The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton". London: The Times. Retrieved 2009-07-11. "...this book examining “work” sounds often as if it has been written by someone who never had a job that was not voluntary, or at least pleasant."

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